Over for the corona vaccination prioritization: is that good or bad? Where everyone can get an appointment soon

Corona vaccine is in the country, but not everyone: r gets an appointment immediately.

Now more and more federal states are canceling vaccination prioritization - the advantages and disadvantages.

Munich - vaccination prioritization: a word that sparked discussions from the start.

At first it was said: Do we need a prioritization?

This was followed by debates about the specific vaccination sequence.

And now the federal states are gradually answering the question: Do general practitioners remove vaccination priorities?

More and more are choosing a yes.

Federal states are lifting corona vaccination prioritization for general practitioners: who has already made a decision

Since Monday (May 17), general practitioners in

Baden-Württemberg have been

able to freely decide who of their patients they vaccinate and when - regardless of which of the approved corona vaccines.

Bavaria

should follow in the course of the week.

There

were also reports

about the lifting of the vaccination prioritization in

Berlin

, but a spokesman for the Senate Department for Health has now specified: First of all, the prioritized groups should continue to be vaccinated.

However, family and specialist practices have been deviating from the prescribed order since Monday if they cannot use up their vaccination doses for prioritized groups.

Saxony

had previously only announced that the priority would be canceled.

The date here is May 24th.

Also the

Prime Minister of

Thuringia

, Bodo Ramelow (left), looks ahead on the subject for his federal state: "At the moment when there is enough vaccine material in the family doctor's office, the family doctor can decide," said the left-wing politician on ZDF on Monday " Morning magazine ".

There are already general practitioners who are more free to make decisions.

The vaccination priority of the Standing Vaccination Commission serves as an orientation.

In

Hesse's

corona vaccination campaign,

in turn, according to the state government, registration is to be opened for all citizens from June - regardless of the prioritization group.

When making appointments, however, people who belong to one of the prioritized groups one to three should initially be given preference.

In

Brandenburg

there are considerations to cancel the vaccination prioritization.

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Corona vaccination prioritization: When can everyone have a vaccination appointment?

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What are the arguments for and against immediately qualifying everyone for a corona vaccination?

Germany vaccinated along three priority groups because not enough vaccine was immediately available for everyone.

But what speaks for and against the lifting of the corona vaccination prioritization?

Here is an overview of some of the pros and cons:

Advantages of lifting corona vaccination prioritization:

• Doctors can decide more flexibly who to vaccinate and when.

• For spontaneous vaccinations, for example if the vaccine is left in the evening, it is easier to find people who can be vaccinated.

• Doctors no longer have to check in each individual case whether a patient is eligible for vaccination.

  This eliminates a bureaucratic obstacle, explained the Baden-Württemberg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in the SWR.

Disadvantages of lifting the corona vaccination prioritization:

• Even now there is not enough vaccine available to offer a vaccination appointment to all interested parties.

  The practices could become chaotic.

• With the repeal, there are even more people competing for the scarce corona vaccine.

  The head of the Marburger Bund Doctors' Association, Susanne Johna, fears on Deutschlandfunk, for example, if you are particularly jostling and may get a chance earlier than people who need special protection.

  Many resident doctors already felt “like the last wall” when it came to administering vaccines.

  The frustration could increase.

• In an interview with Die

  Welt

  , Ethics Council member Andreas Lob-Hüdepohl emphasizes that it violates the principle of justice to expose people who have not yet been vaccinated with greater urgency to the "greyhound principle"

  .

  Older people have a significantly higher risk than young people of getting seriously ill with corona.

Remove corona prioritization nationwide?

At the federal level, Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) had promised that an officially established order may no longer be necessary from June.

Currently, there is only no prioritization for the corona vaccines from Astrazeneca and Johnson & Johnson.

At the same time, the Standing Vaccination Commission recommends vaccinating the funds from these manufacturers to those over 60 years of age who are willing to vaccinate.

(cibo with material from dpa)

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